“Our presumption is that the updraft in product rates will lessen into mid-year, and base results will lastly permit an emerging sag in the year-over-year inflation metrics,” Englund informed CoinDesk in an e-mail. “This ought to lessen pressure on the Fed to resolve inflation, and ought to permit quarter-point walkings at simply every other conference, leaving 5 walkings for 2022 general (in March, May, June, September and December).”